{"id":58050,"date":"2022-07-03T01:45:55","date_gmt":"2022-07-03T01:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/amateur-drivers-set-to-compete-in-front-of-thousands-at-red-bull-soapbox-race"},"modified":"2022-07-03T01:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-07-03T01:45:55","slug":"amateur-drivers-set-to-compete-in-front-of-thousands-at-red-bull-soapbox-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/amateur-drivers-set-to-compete-in-front-of-thousands-at-red-bull-soapbox-race","title":{"rendered":"Amateur drivers set to compete in front of thousands at Red Bull Soapbox Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of spectators are expected to descend on Alexandra Palace in London to witness the annual Red Bull Soapbox race.Around 70 teams of amateur drivers and crews have been tasked with creating their own homemade non-motorised soapboxes that will race on the downhill course on Sunday.Each soapbox vehicle is unique and many of the crews have been inspired by their favourite TV shows and fictional characters from films including Star Wars, Harry Potter and Ghostbusters.Red Bull Soapbox team The Handsome Homers have called their soapbox the Pink Lightening, inspired by the Simpsons. (Team Handsome Homers\/PA)One team called The Handsome Homers have included a large doughnut on their bright pink soapbox, called the Pink Lightening, inspired by The Simpsons.Team captain Jack Brown, 23, told the PA news agency: &#8220;We&#8217;ve all grown up watching The Simpsons, our costumes are going to be the highlight.&#8220;We&#8217;ve found it harder this year than any other year but we&#8217;ve found time in the evenings after work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of spectators are expected to descend on Alexandra Palace in London to witness the annual Red Bull Soapbox race. Around 70 teams of amateur drivers and crews have been<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,114],"tags":[374,58,263,176],"class_list":["post-58050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-tv-shows","tag-motorsports","tag-sports","tag-star-wars","tag-tv-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}